Episode 467: Caregiving for Loved Ones & Entrepreneurship While Building Financial Freedom w/ Keisha Wilson
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Journey to Launch Podcast, I'm joined by healthcare compliance expert and entrepreneur Keisha Wilson for a powerful conversation about career pivots, betting on yourself, caregiving, and building financial flexibility before you realize you'll need it.
Keisha shares how she transitioned from corporate leadership into entrepreneurship, how that decision gave her the flexibility to care for her mother through stage four cancer and a devastating home explosion, and why preparation, advocacy, and hard financial conversations matter more than we think. This episode is about resilience, faith, and creating options that protect your peace and your family.
In This Episode, Keisha Shares:
- How medical coding became a high-demand, lucrative career path and why skill-building creates long-term flexibility
- What it really takes to leave a steady paycheck and build a consulting business from scratch
- The emotional and financial realities of caregiving and why advocacy and second medical opinions matter
- The importance of wills, healthcare proxies, power of attorney, and financial transparency before crisis hits
- Why building freedom and flexibility now can prepare you for life's unexpected turns
What's New in the Paperback Edition of Your Journey to Financial Freedom
- A bonus chapter: When Life Happens: Staying on the Path to Financial Freedom Through Setbacks, Shifts, and Uncertainty
- A book club and discussion guide with prompts, exercises, and action steps
- Updated corrections from the original hardcover
- Exclusive bonuses when you purchase the paperback, including:
- The Fire Starter Course
- The Find Your FIRE Number Worksheet
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
- Get your paperback edition of Your Journey To Financial Freedom if you haven't already.
- Apply to Share Your Journeyer Story, here.
- Join the Journey to Launch Book Club to dive deeper into financial freedom with guided discussions and resources here!
- Join The Weekly Newsletter List to get updates, deals & more!
- Leave Your Journey To Financial Freedom a review!
- Get The Budget Bootcamp
- Check out my personal website here.
- Leave me a voicemail– Leave me a question on the Journey To Launch voicemail and have it answered on the podcast!
- YNAB – Start managing your money and budgeting so that you can reach your financial dreams. Sign up for a free 34 days trial of YNAB, my go-to budgeting app by using my referral link.
- What stage of the financial journey are you on? Are you working on financial stability or work flexibility? Find out with this free assessment and get a curated list of the 10 next best episodes for you to listen to depending on your stage. Check it out here!
Connect with Keisha:
- Website: byhersidefaithfulcaregiver.com
- Instagram: @_FaithfulCaregiver
- Twitter: x.com/_faithfulcareg
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| 0:47.1 | And that's to show you how life can be gone in an instance, |
| 0:50.6 | but then how certain things that you viewed as your material thing, they're not |
| 0:56.3 | worth it as much as a life. |
| 0:58.2 | T-minus 10 seconds. |
| 1:01.2 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast with your host, Jamila Sufran. |
| 1:05.2 | As a money expert who walks her talk, she helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 1:15.2 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one. |
| 1:27.4 | If you want the episode, show notes for this episode, go to journey to launch.com or click the |
| 1:33.5 | description of wherever you're listening to this episode. |
| 1:36.5 | In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed version of the conversation, the links that we |
| 1:41.7 | mentioned, and so much more. |
| 1:43.8 | Also, whether you are an OG journeyer |
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